This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I created several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers (see full list below). I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
Current totals by data source
Current totals by date accuracy
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Europeana
Het Nationaal Glasmuseum - 22336 items; Sjöhistoriska museet - 11809 items; Bohusläns museum - 7936 items; Vänersborgs museum - 7561 items; Kulturarv Västernorrland - 4090 items; Rijksmuseum - 3241 items; Tekniska museet - 2444 items; Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden - 2317 items; Karlsborgs fästningsmuseum - 2007 items; Miliseum - 1287 items; Örebro läns museum - 1254 items; Flygvapenmuseum - 1058 items; ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - 1042 items; Marinmuseum - 735 items; Skansen - 629 items; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library - 579 items; Riksantikvarieämbetet - 381 items; Stiftelsen Nordiska museet - 288 items; Historisch Museum Ede - 254 items; Stedelijk Museum Zutphen - 221 items; Ajuntament de Girona - 106 items; CODA Museum - 103 items; INP - National Heritage Institute, Bucharest - 103 items; Upplandsmuseet - 102 items; The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland - 95 items; Aaltense Musea - 58 items; Stadsmuseum Harderwijk - 56 items; Sundsvalls museum - 50 items; National library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" - 44 items; Länsmuseet Gävleborg - 37 items; Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - 31 items; Vasamuseet - 28 items; Images of Old Cluj - 27 items; Nederlands Tegelmuseum - 20 items; Postmuseum - 18 items; Δήμος Τρίπολης - 11 items; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem - 9 items; Cluj County Library - 9 items; Slovak National Library - 8 items; Csorba Győző Könyvtár - Pécs - 7 items; Stadskasteel Zaltbommel - 7 items; Stichting Liemers Museum - 6 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus - 4 items; Žemaičių muziejus „Alka“ / Samogitian Museum "Alka" - 3 items; Deventer Musea - 3 items; NOC*NSF - 3 items; Nationalmuseum, Sweden - 2 items; Wikimedia Commons Community - 2 items; Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejus / Museum of Lithuanian Education History - 2 items; Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár - 2 items; Museum Elburg - 1 items; National Library of Bulgaria - 1 items; Horniman Museum and Gardens - 1 items; jNederlands Openluchtmuseum - 1 items; Lietuvos dailės muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum - 1 items; Kauno IX forto muziejus / Kaunas 9th Fort Museum - 1 items; A. Baranausko ir A. Vienuolio-Žukausko memorialinis muziejus / Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum - 1 items; Slot Loevestein - 1 items; Museon - 1 items
Breakdown of institutional data retrieved through Flickr Commons
The U.S. National Archives - 1730 items; The Library of Congress - 1093 items; SMU Libraries Digital Collections - 1038 items; State Library and Archives of Florida - 912 items; State Library of Queensland, Australia - 891 items; Cornell University Library - 840 items; bibliothequedetoulouse - 821 items; Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons - 567 items; Swedish National Heritage Board - 559 items; National Library of Ireland on The Commons - 494 items; State Library of New South Wales collection - 402 items; Vestfoldmuseene | Vestfold Museums - 385 items; MissouriStateArchives - 371 items; National Library of Australia Commons - 295 items; NASA on The Commons - 262 items; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums - 249 items; National Library of Norway - 229 items; Royal Australian Historical Society - 216 items; Deseronto Archives - 183 items; Provincial Archives of Alberta - 177 items; Powerhouse Museum Collection - 170 items; UW Digital Collections - 123 items; National Library NZ on The Commons - 123 items; UA Archives | Upper Arlington History - 114 items; National Library of Scotland - 105 items; Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - 89 items; Australian War Memorial collection - 88 items; Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Commons - 78 items; National Archives of Estonia - 67 items; Museum of Photographic Arts Collections - 64 items; Stockholm Transport Museum Commons - 61 items; Liberas / Liberaal Archief - 59 items; National Museum of Denmark - 55 items; Costică Acsinte Archive - 49 items; The Gallen-Kallela Museum - 46 items; Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle - 46 items; Museum of Hartlepool - 45 items; George Eastman Museum - 33 items; San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives - 32 items; The National Archives UK - 31 items; tyrrellhistoricallibrary - 29 items; Preus museum - 27 items; Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane - 21 items; OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons - 21 items; The Finnish Museum of Photography - 20 items; National Science and Media Museum - 17 items; Schlesinger Library, RIAS, Harvard University - 9 items; Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol - 7 items; Smithsonian Institution - 4 items; Getty Research Institute - 4 items; Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland - 4 items; The British Library - 2 items; Camden Public Library (Maine) - 2 items; Center for Jewish History, NYC - 1 items; Kalamazoo Public Library - 1 items; Aalto University Library and Archive Commons - 1 items;
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The website code and generated data is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please (subject to any restrictions as imposed by the content and toolset providers).
Vanguard (1748). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for Vanguard (1748), a 1745 Establishment 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker.
1 November 1745
National Maritime Museum
Vanguard (1748). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for Vanguard (1748), a 1745 Establishment 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker.
1 November 1745
National Maritime Museum
A Calm. From the Original Picture in the Collection of Thomas Pratt Esqr. Technique includes etching.; Plate No. 2.
1 Nov 1773
National Maritime Museum
Sir Richard Pearson of his Majesty's Ship Alarm (late Commander of the Serapis). Print
1 Nov 1780
National Maritime Museum
A View of the City of Quebec, the Capital of Canada, taken from the Rock on Point Levi, by Wm Peachy, Octr 23d 1784. Hand-coloured.
1 Nov 1786
National Maritime Museum
The Negroe at the Place of Execution. Etching entitled 'The Negroe at the Place of Execution,' by W. Skelton after C.R. Ryley, published by T. Hookham, Bond Street, November 1, 1787. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection.
Inscrib
1 November 1787
National Maritime Museum
Sir Samuel Greig Admiral and Commander in Chief of Her Imperial Majesties Fleets in the Baltic.... Print
1 Nov 1788
National Maritime Museum
26 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with inboard detail for a 26 ft Yawl.
Annotation dated: 1 November 1793
National Maritime Museum
No.2. Smugglers (caricature). Hand-coloured. A rural picture that depicts a small boat being unloaded with a few barrels onto the shore. A man is loading them onto a horse and cart. Other boats are at sea, but the smugglers do not appear to be concerned,
1 Nov 1793
National Maritime Museum
Sir George Rooke. From an Original Drawing the Property of Vice Admiral Kingsmill. Stipple engraving.; Hand-coloured.
1 Nov 1794
National Maritime Museum
To the Right Honorable John Pitt, Earl of Chatham... This representation of the British Fleet... Bringing into Spithead the Six French Ships captur'd on the First of June 1794. Hand-coloured.
1 Nov 1794
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Howard, Earl of Effingham. Who defeated the Spanish Armada, in July, 1588. Print
1 Nov 1796
National Maritime Museum
A Toast for New France. May the Names of Howe, St Vincent Duncan Nelson and Warren be eternally erased from our recollection!! (caricature). Technique includes aquatint.; Hand-coloured.
1 Nov 1798
National Maritime Museum
John Bull Taking a Lunch - or Johnny's Purveyors pampering his appetite with Dainties from all parts of the World (caricature). Hand-coloured.
1 Nov 1798
National Maritime Museum
John Francis Galoup De La Perouse, Commodore in the French Navy, born at Alby in 1741. Print
1 Nov 1798
National Maritime Museum
Engagement between the English and Dutch Fleets, off the North Foreland, Sept 28 1652. Technique includes etching.
1 Nov 1799
National Maritime Museum
Capture of the Africaine French frigate by the Phoebe... 1 Nov 1801. Drawing.
1801
National Maritime Museum
Map of Africa. Manuscript and Library material from the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection. It is dedicated 'TO / The Committee / AND / Members OF THE British Association, / FOR / Discovering the Interior parts of / AFRICA / By their most obed
1 November, 1802
National Maritime Museum
The Jolly Tars of Old England on a Land Cruise (caricature). Mounted with PAG8551.; Hand-coloured.; No.38.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
1 Nov 1802
National Maritime Museum
Unnamed 24ft Sprat Boat (1802). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for an unnamed 24ft Sprat Boat (1802), built at Bristol by Mr Hilhouse, on 29 October 1802. Mould Loft Number 6.
Signed by Robert Hilhouse
1 November 1802
National Maritime Museum
The Dons Outwitted or John Bull in Time for Once (caricature). Hand-coloured.
1 Nov 1804
National Maritime Museum
Woodland scene with path. Bound with PAD7649-PAD782, PAD7684-PAD7686.
1 Nov 1804
National Maritime Museum
Loss of His Majesty's Ship the Sceptre, of 74 Guns in Table Bay. HMS 'Spectre' was in fact 64 guns, and erroneously labelled as "74 guns" by the publisher of this print. The ship was wrecked in Table Bay on 5 November 1799.
1 Nov 1805
National Maritime Museum
Sir Home Riggs Popham, K.M. & F.R.S. Commander of His Majesty's Squadron at the Capture of Buenos Ayres, &c. Print
1 Nov 1806
National Maritime Museum
'On a Visit in Style - Taking a Ride - West India Fashionables'. Two vignettes inscribed 'Taking a Ride' and 'West India Fashionables', probably by James Sayers (1748-1823).
This image satirizes a planter in the British Cari
1 November 1807
National Maritime Museum
A West India Sportsman. Make haste with the Sangaree, Quashaie, and tell Quaco to drive the Birds up to me - I'm ready. In 1807 when the bill banning the trade in slaves in British dominions was finally passed, William Holland published a series of p
1 November, 1807
National Maritime Museum
Rear Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, K.B. Engraved by Ridley & Blood from an Original Painting by H Matthews. European Magazine. Print
1 Nov 1808
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich. Other copies are PAD2213 and PAD2214 (see last for notes). From Cooke's 'Views on the Thames' .
1 Nov 1809
National Maritime Museum
'Tortoise' (1807). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing an incomplete inboard profile, upper deck, gun deck (lower), and orlop deck for the 'Tortoise' (1809), a storeship, prior to her 1813 modifications, which are annotated in pencil.
Sign
1November 1811
National Maritime Museum
The Battle of Lissa, 13 March 1811; the end of the action. This appears to be a duplicate of PAH8093, where a fuller description is given.
1 Nov 1811
National Maritime Museum
Ships of the 14th & 15th Centuries. 1375, 1425. Technique includes mixed methods.
1 Nov 1812
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Lord Nelson. K.B. Technique includes etching.; Photograph of a large house and gardens on reverse.
1 Nov 1813
National Maritime Museum
Destruction of American fleet by Sir G Collier's squadron in Penobscot Bay Aug 14 1779. Vignette.
1 Nov 1814
National Maritime Museum
Dr Herschel, Member of the Royal Society of London..... This half-length portrait of William Herschel shows him wrapped up warm, ready for observing, against a background of trees at night with a crescent moon and stars (part of the constellation of Gemin
1 November 1814
National Maritime Museum
Bonaparte in Torbay, at Anchor, on board His M Ship Bellerophon, Capt F C Maitland, July 24, 1815, previous to his sailing for St Helena (Eurotas and Liffey in background). Technique includes etching. The artist is George Tobin (1768-1838) who as a lieut
1 Nov 1815
National Maritime Museum
Capture of L' Immortalite Octr. 20th. 1798 [by the 'Fisgard']. Print
1 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum
Capture of L' Immortalite Octr. 20th. 1798 [by the 'Fisgard']. This images shows port stern quarter views of the L'Immortalite (on the left) and the Fisgard (on the right) as they both run before the wind, engaging in broadside gun ba
1 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum
Capture of La Desiree - July 7th 1800. The plate represents the sloop 'Dart', commanded by Captain P. Campbell in the act of boarding and taking the French frigate 'La Desiree'. 'Dart' is in the centre of the picture.
Inscrib
1 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum
Capture of the Santa Dorotea, 15th July 1798. This hand-coloured aquatint depicts the capture of the Spanish ship ‘Santa Dorotea’ by the English ‘Lion’ on 15th July, 1798. The ‘Lion’ is in the centre right of the pictur
1 Nov 1816
National Maritime Museum
'Ant' (1815). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing inboard and external profile, three sections, deck plan, and bottom plan for the 'Ant' (1815), a seventy-two foot swim-head barge built in Deptford Dockyard. Later modifications dated '18
1November 1819
National Maritime Museum
66ft Open Barge (fl. 1819). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing three sections, profile, deck plan, and hold plan for a sixty-six foot open swim-headed barge for Deptford Dockyard.
Note that this plan, with alterations, was used for the building of two barges
1 November 1819
National Maritime Museum
Billy Waters. Billy Waters was born in America and lost his leg when a seaman in the 'Ganymede', sloop, under (later Sir) J. Purves, as a result of falling from her topsail yard. The print may be engraved in reverse if ZBA2427 correcty shows him
1 November 1819
National Maritime Museum
Old Copper the Waterman and the Duke of Grafton. (caricature). Technique includes engraving.
1 Nov 1822
National Maritime Museum
Admiral Sir James Saumarez, Bt. B.C.B. Vice Admiral of Great Britain From an original Picture by Carbonier in the possession of Captain Brenton, Engraved by C. Turner for Capt Brenton's Naval History. Print. The artist is likely to be Casimir Carbonn
1 Nov 1823
National Maritime Museum
'Ganges', 84 Guns (from "Sketches of Shipping in Portsmouth Harbour, Drawn and Etched by Henry Moses").. The two-decker ‘Ganges’, in two positions, at anchor in Portsmouth harbour: centrally in port-broadside view, and at l
1 Nov 1825
National Maritime Museum
'Ganges', 84 guns, in Portsmouth Harbour. The two-decker ‘Ganges’, in two positions, at anchor in Portsmouth harbour: centrally in port-broadside view, and at left, a little further away, stern-on. Around and behind her other shippin
1 Nov 1825
National Maritime Museum
Point Steer, Portsmouth, or, the Coxwain Carousal (caricature). Mounted with PAG8645.; Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.; No.134.
Bound in album PAG8512 with prints PAG8513-PAG8647; PAG8649- PAG8666.
1 Nov 1825
National Maritime Museum
The Clyde, Capt D.N. Munro off Point Natal, Nov 1st 1826 in a gale.... Messrs Fairlie, Bonham & Co..... Dramatic coloured aquatint print depicting the Clyde, a British East Indiaman, caught in a gale.
May 1827
National Maritime Museum
A Light Air of Wind. From the Original Picture in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Montagu. Technique includes etching.; Plate No 4.
1 Nov 1830
National Maritime Museum
Russell (1822); chain lockers for 74-gun Third Rates. No scale. Plan showing the elevation through the gun deck (lower deck) and orlop deck, the plan of the gun deck, and the plan of the orlop deck and hold illustrating the method of fitting the chain lo
1 November 1835
National Maritime Museum
Plymouth Sound. Vignette.; Technique includes etching.; Plate No 245.
1 Nov 1841
National Maritime Museum
Simoom (1849). No scale. [Copy of a] Plan showing the proposed arrangement by R. Napier of the screw shaft for Simoom (1849), a Second Class Frigate, completed as a screw Troopship.
1 November 1845
National Maritime Museum
Sir Edward Willm C.R. Owen, G.C.B. G.C.H. Admiral of the White. Print
1 Nov 1849
National Maritime Museum
The cutter yacht Audax, 59 Tons, To John Henry Johnson Esq.... Hand-coloured.
1 Nov 1861
National Maritime Museum